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Change default Automatic Package Updater Chocolatey output path to avoid output will be pushed to GitHub

Introduction

Aim: define output directory for automatically created Chocolatey packages by ketarin to avoid that automatically created nuspec packages will be pushed to GitHub

The steps located in this manual have been followed to create a Chocolatey Packages automatically. One of the steps is to specify the path to the directory where the Automatic Chocolatey Package templates reside. These Packages are maintained in a GitHub repository which have been cloned on the computer.

chocopkgup.exe.config

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="PackagesFolder" value="C:\path\to\chocolateyautomatic"/>
    <add key="TokenReplaceFileSearchPattern" value="*.txt|*.nuspec|*.ps1|*.config"/>
    <add key="PS1FileToExecute" value="ChocoPkgUp.ps1"/>
  </appSettings>
  <startup>
    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
  </startup>
</configuration>

A Windows Scheduled task to run ketarin.exe every hour has been created. According the log the nuspec package is created in the directory C:\path\to\chocolateyautomatic\output which is defined as PackagesFolder in the chocopkgup.exe.config file.

chocolatey.package.updater.log

2014-06-14 19:05:01,884 [INFO ] - Attempting to build package from 'packagename.nuspec'.
Successfully created package 'C:\path\to\chocolateyautomatic\_output\packagename\packageversion\packagename.packageversion.nupkg'.

To avoid that the Automatically created Chocolatey packages will be seen as changes to be committed if git status will be executed, another output path for automatically created Chocolatey Packages would like to be defined in the chocopkgup.exe.config

Question

How to change output directory of automatically created Chocolatey Packages by ketarin to avoid that the created nuspec packages are created in GitHub checkout?

Solution

  • Although not a direct answer to your question, can you not simply change the .gitignore file to exclude those files and folders?

    This is what I have done here:

    https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey-coreteampackages/blob/master/.gitignore

    Hope that helps!

    Gary